Archives for
December 2009

There's no doubt that for many of us, Facebook consumes a goodly proportion of our time; on average, we spend 5 percent of our time online. For some teenagers, time spent on the 350 million-strong social network has gone beyond time spent and into ti...

Macala Wright Lee is the CEO of FashionablyMarketing.Me a digital marketing and merchandising firm that specializes in fashion, luxury and beauty brands in Southern California. You can follower her on Twitter at @FashMarketing. It’s safe to say that ...

From the same folks at Whirled Interactive who brought us the excellently funny "Pulp Wave Fiction" comes another intelligent use of Google Wave as a video production medium -- this time it's used to encapsulate the year in news and social media. In ...

By hook or by crook, the publishing industry is aiming to tap into the burgeoning mobile market any way that it can. This morning, Random House Publishing Group announced that it has collaborated with Mobile Roadie to launch a trio of free iPhone app...

Last month when popular Twitter client Seesmic launched an Android version, one of the few omissions we noted was support for Twitter search and trending topics. In a new 1.1 version update for Android users, Seesmic now includes Twitter search and t...

If anything dominated the social media world last week, it was URL shorteners. Both Facebook and Google launched URL shorteners, Fb.me and Goo.gl respectively. Now Google subsidiary YouTube has joined the URL shortening bandwagon. It has just announc...

We thought we'd try something a little bit different for this week's edition of our Web Faceoff series. Last week we saw Digg beat out Reddit and StumbleUpon for social news champion, and this week we're throwing out a timely but more provincial batt...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Yahoo had spent most of 2008 trying to fend off Microsoft's acquisition offer, and then it spent most of 2009 trying to prove to shareholders it can still be profitable. The company cut 2,000 jobs since September 2008 Carl Icahn left the board of dir...

A new Facebook clickjacking attack is making the rounds, and this one is as sly as they come. The attack spreads through a malicious website, http://fb.59.to, leading users to this YouTube video. The method used to spread the link is particularly int...

As the decade draws to a close, there’s at least one thing we can say about the social media space with a fairly high level of confidence: it’s here to stay. That said, looking ahead to the next ten years, it’s incredibly hard to predict how we’ll us...

Remember when Steve Ballmer said that there's "no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share?" Well, according to Nielsen, the iPhone 3G is currently the number one mobile phone in the U.S., holding 4 percent of the market. N...

The release of Firefox 4.0 may still be nearly a year away, but the excitement for the new version is already growing. In July, we revealed the first images of Firefox 4.0. Now one of the designers behind the browser has shared on his blog updated mo...

Rumors that Apple would launch TV subscription plans via Apple TV and iTunes originated from All Things Digital in early November. Now The Wall Street Journal is giving even more credence to early reports, claiming that both CBS Corp. and Walt Disney...

Twitter has yet to pull the trigger on their purported advertising initiatives (though they are profitable), and today OneRiot is beating the microblogging site to the punch and releasing RiotWise Trending Ads as part of its API and Mobile Ad Unit. R...

Hot on the heels of last month's 10.10 release, the web browser Opera has just issued a pre-alpha Opera Labs release of the upcoming Opera 10.5. The build is available for Windows and Mac users -- with a Linux version coming later. The big news is th...

Last month, Fortune Magazine named Apple's Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. Today, the Harvard Business Review has released its list of the best-performing CEOs in the world and unsurprisingly, Jobs tops the list. Looking at just the strict financial re...

Noa Gafni is a social media consultant with a focus on women and Gen Y. She authors Webutantes, a blog about Internet trends impacting women. 2009 was the year of the social media mom. So-called "mommy bloggers" broke away from their niche audiences ...

Last week, BoyGenius claimed to have found browser logs that suggest that new versions (3.1.3 and 4.0) of Apple's iPhone OS are being tested. It's not solid evidence, but today there's a little more fuel to add to that fire. MacRumors was tipped off ...

TrendsSpotting Market Research is kicking off its predictions for 2010 with its report on social media -- comprised of forecasts from everyone from Mashable founder Pete Cashmore to Craig Newmark, of Craigslist fame. The report, which offers a tip of...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

A look back on 2009 may not be so rosy. A global economic crisis, an increasingly polarized healthcare debate, a handful of iconic celebrity deaths, a plethora of real-time non-news noise (e.g., balloon boy), and of course, Kanye West. Well, I’ma let...

Oh Ballmer, just pull out the checkbook already! The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just upheld a lower court's decision that would ban the current version of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office from sale as of January 11, 2010. As...

David Spinks is the Community Manager for Scribnia, where the world's bloggers and columnists are reviewed by their readers. He also blogs at The Spinks Blog about business, careers and professional communities. Attention young future professionals: ...

We suspected that Hulu's very limited deal with EMI for Norah Jones music videos would be just the start for the premium content site in the music space. Need proof? Look no further than today's news: Hulu has inked a deal with Warner Music Group (WM...

Stop the digital presses: People use Facebook to cheat on their spouses and said cheating leads to d-i-v-o-r-c-e (in case there are kids in the room), or so says a rather reactionary piece in the Telegraph. The British paper seeks to cast Facebook as...

Twitter just announced they've partnered with mobile provider Telstra to provide SMS Twitter support in Australia. As is typical, receiving notifications is free, with standard text message rates applying for sending tweets via SMS. For interested Au...

It's undoubtedly the Google Nexus One that has the Android-faithful -- and the Android-curious -- champing at the bit for any scrap of leaked info we can get. Luckily for us, the below video is a fairly juicy five-minute walkthrough of a French versi...

A number of users are reporting issues with several data-centric BlackBerry services including BlackBerry Messenger, the web browser and third-party apps using data connections. BlackBerry Reporter speculates the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) may...

In August, NPR released its own iPhone app. Not only does that app allow users to read through the latest stories, but it also supports listening to any NPR station or NPR program live, and makes past shows and podcasts available. It's a truly except...

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